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Greek Heroes
This course was run at the City Lit on 19 November 2011 as a follow up to the course on the Trojan War. Below are the notes I made to run the course. I repeated the course on Saturday 21st June 2014 with some further handouts. Heracles handout Plays on the Heroes gods For those… Read more »
Zoltan Kodaly
Kodaly and Budapest This study was part of a longer course studying the history and culture of Budapest. We concentrated on Kodaly’s choral works and how they fitted in with the tradition of Hungarian choral works initiated by his greatest predecessor, Liszt. We compared Liszt’s Hungarian Coronation Mass with Kodaly’s similarly celebratory Buda Castle Te… Read more »
Queen Anne
The Life and Times of Queen Anne This was a one day course at the City Lit on Saturday 21st February 2015. I repeated it somewhat amended on Sunday 25th November 2018. It was described thus Queen Anne was the last of the Stuarts and suffered much personal tragedy but she ruled over an increasingly… Read more »